Name of the Day: Grace

Thanksgiving Day 🦃

Grace

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! 🎉 We are eternally grateful for all of you magnificent Berries who make Nameberry everything that it is today. And I personally am so grateful to have such a warm and passionate community of name-nerds to share this obsession (ahem, interest) with.

To express this gratitude, today we will be celebrating the timeless Grace.

Grace, derived from the Latin word gratia, was established as a given name by the Puritans in the 16th century along with a multitude of other virtue names — most of which did not survive the test of time.

But Grace sure did. Never leaving the Top 400, Grace has spanned each and every generation. Grace has been a particular favorite in the 21st century, now at #35. And if you ask a Gen Z-er what her middle name is, there is a very high probability that it's Grace.

Nickname Gracie is on a slow decline, now at #257, while elaborations Gracelynn and Gracelyn are trending. Unique variations of Grace include Gracia or Graziella. Or for an offbeat virtue name, try Verity, Blythe, Merit, or Amity.

Now go eat some stuffing!